Nava Sarata (Amanor)

My Dearest cilicians. How the hell are you doing?

As I practice and study old religions I am so happy that the Newrooz is coming. 11th August is our Amanor, the old Navasart, the antique Indo-European Nava Sarada or Nava Serhada. (Gh. Alishán – Hetanosakan Gronk Hayotz, Venice, 1895, p. 20). The fire that renews the nature also renews our souls and projects, our ideas…our horizon.


December and January

2006 has been a great year. Lots of things happened and the way it ended was totally weird.

This is one of the surprises of 2006-2007. The first CD of LOS ARMENIOS.

Los Armenios is an Argentinean band that plays rock in Armenian. We compose the songs and we also do covers of Armenian classic (joghovërtagan) songs. After playing in many famous places in Buenos Aires we decided to record our very first record called SPYURKASDAN – Republica Diaspora.
It has 11 songs a great booklet with all the lyrics in Armenian and the translation in spanish as well. What I can say is that it will be the art revelation of the year, at least for our community.
Check out the http://www.losarmenios.com/ soon and you’ll see how we look and what we do.

Marcelo Kevorkian (Duduk/Shvi), Mariela Moumdjian (Vocals), Juan Abadjian (Guitars), Pablo Kaloustian (Drums), Gabriel Giogourtzian (Bass)

We are still planning a big gig for the official launching of the CD in May, I will keep you noticed about this.

About HaShiSh.

Hashish is an Argentinean power trio that resides in Buenos Aires. I play the guiar and sing in the band. Since the year 2000 we have been performing our art, a fuzz chord joint, and sticky pop melodies, generating our own so-called genre known as PPC (Caucasian Power Punq or simetric punk). Hashish songs are performed in different languages, Spanish, Armenian and English mostly.
Our main goal is to present an honest energy of universal, multi-cultural and originally chaotic musical proposal to every place in the world.

We also edited, after three years fighting for it, our first record. Thanks to the Gogortiloz Foundation (London) and others, we made that dream to be true.

We launched the CD at the Teatro Stella Maris of San Isidro city, near Buenos Aires. It was one of the most weird and bizarre shows we have ever did. 18 songs non stop, and lots of surprises. Mr. Raul Oscar Alonso, a great scholar of Argentina, in the middle of the show, offered a speech about the Armenians and the Vasques. He declared that “The Caucasus is a privileged region because of its people, its soil and countless other subjects. I’m not an Armenian descendent, I’m a vasque descendent.
Recent history and recent history researchers – to be more precise- have discovered that the “Euskaros” had an unknown original land. This theory is certain nowadays. They are “Caucasus” descendents. That means that the “Euskaros” were Armenian-like.
Why I’m stating this? For several reasons that researchers have detected. Because it’s a topic I’m interested and because I have a great deal of Armenian friends. Through this line of investigation, I discovered –for example- that my skull, Euskarian skull, it’s a “Caucasian Skull”.”

HaShish Alive. 22nd December 2006.

The surprise: Pedrito, Shara and Sevak Lechuga.

It was year 2000, while I used to spent the 99,99% of my time on the internet. One day I found the www.kotayknights.com website. It was incredible! ! ! After 1998 and my first trip to Armenia, I became a big fan of Kotayk Beer, the best of the planet. So there was a group of Armenians in Los Angeles that run a beer club called Kotayknights. I sent to Pedro Zarokian, chief commander, one song about the Kotayk Beer called My HaShiSh. Years has gone fast… On late November I received an email from Pedro (After Years without news about him) telling me that he was to arrive on Dec. 22nd to Buenos Aires, just the date we were about to play in the Teatro for the CD launching. So guess what??? Check out this Video if you didn’t figure out yet…
So we opened a Kotayk Beer on stage, brought by Pedro, from Yerevan to Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires.

Pedro Zarokian speaking to the audience in Buenos Aires. He is up to open the Kotayk Beer. One of my dreams came true. The power of a song made it real.

The after-show

Pedro came with his group of friends, really lovely and nice people. We hang out many nights in Buenos Aires and they made me feel like a kind young ambassador of our nice community.
I met Shara and Sevak, both great guys of Los Angeles. We went together to Iguazu Waterfalls, where we drunk lots of beers to get a better view of it, hehehe. I learned lots of Los Angeles slang as the myth of the Hootchie Mamas among other cultural concepts. See an example of cultural exchange in T.G. Friday's Buenos Aires.

Me, Pedrito, Sevak Lechuga and Sharita at the Sardarabad Newspaper building at Armenia St. Buenos Aires.

Genocide News

It is said that Argentina recognized the Armenian Genocide by law. I am not sure this is a pure recognition because the law is not complete as it has to be. It does not mention the year it has been perpetrated and nothing about the Ottoman-Turks or the Turkish State, really poor.

About Dink

There have been two main activities on the death of Dink, considering it happened in the main époque of Vacations for the Armenians in Buenos Aires. On Sunday there will be the Hokehankisd for him.
Now it seems that there is a new fashion of Turkish scholars writing about us. I hope its all honest prewriting.

I am still waiting for other countries that suffered genocides to recognize the Armenian one…You know, the excuse that those nations supports us but not the government are empty sentences. They all are democratic systems and, if you still believe in democracy, the rule is that is representative, so the people has the power to choose.

Nothing more to be said…

Happy Trndez for Everyone ! ! !
Jump on the holy fire!

PS: Maybe HaShiSh will land on Los Angeloz soon...stayed tuned. Shoes Are Cool.